Hillary Clinton, Machiavellian Super-Genius |
| Published: February 18, 2008, 12:33 pm |
| Tags: 2008 democratic primary, mark penn union buster tm |
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I recently said that one shouldn't be too harsh on the Clinton campaign, but this may have been premature:Good lord, let's see if I have this right. The Clinton campaign decides to cede every post-Super Tuesday state to Obama under the theory that Texas and Ohio will be strong firewalls. After after implementing this Rudy-esque strategy, they discovered that the archaic Texas rules will almost certainly result in a split delegate count (at best). While they were busy discovering the rules, however, the Obama campaign had people on the ground in Texas explaining the system, organizing precincts, and making Powerpoints. I know because I went to one of these meetings a week ago. I should have invited Mark Penn I suppose. (ed. Maybe foresight is an obsolete macrotrend.)I dunno, if I were paying someone upwards of $2 million for consulting I might expect them to, say, know the basic delegate allocation rules of states that might determine the nomination. Maybe they [ Full article ] |
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